Birthdays: Rembrandt van Rijn, Inigo Jones, Sir Thomas Bullfinch, Mother Cabrini, Rev. Clemont Moore, Julian Bream, Linda Rondstadt is 79, Alex Karras, Jan Michael Vincent, Lola Davidovich, Forrest Whitaker is 64, Brigette Neilsen, Jesse Ventura is 73, Terry O’ Quinn is 73
St. Swithun's Day in England. St. Swithun was Bishop of Winchester (852). Swithun to whom one should pray in the event of drought. He is a patron saint of Umbrella makers.
1938- Max Fleischer Popeye cartoon "With the Jeep" introduced Eugene the Jeep. The character was created in the Thimble Theater comic strip two years earlier. The funny little character later gave its name to the army’s new General Purpose Vehicle, the G.P. or Jeep.
1941- President Franklin Roosevelt sent federal mediator Stanley White to try and solve the labor strike between Walt Disney and his cartoonists.
1953- The film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes premiered starring Marylyn Monroe and Jane Russell.
1971- Producer Steve Krantz announced the production of the first X-rated cartoon, Fritz the Cat, based on the popular underground comic by Robert Crumb. It would be directed by Ralph Bakshi.
1980- Several nations including the U.S. were experimenting with a public internet service. Today France Telecom jumped ahead when they started up a domestic internet called Minitel. Subscribers could shop, order tickets check stock prices and chat online. The first on-line banking. Eventually it was supplanted by the World Wide Web in 1989 and discontinued in 2012.
1982-Coca-Cola introduced Diet Coke. Coke officials are proud of the fact that within a year it's sales top that of Tab, but Tab was owned by Coke as well. (duh..?)
1994- James Cameron’s movie True Lies opens. With Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis.
1996- MSNBC channel went on the air. It struggled to find an identity early on, until host Keith Olbermann in 2005 proved there was a huge underserved audience of politically liberal viewers who craved an alternative to Fox News blatant right wing partisanship. Even after Olbermann left in 2011, MSNBC kept up its progressive credentials with hosts like Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donell.
1997- Famed clothing designer Gianni Versace was murdered outside his Miami mansion by a deranged serial killer on a spree since leaving Minnesota. The killer, Andrew Cunanan, was later found in a houseboat with a self-inflicted bullet in his head.
2011- Disney’s last hand-drawn feature film Winnie the Pooh, and short the Ballad of Nessie opened in theaters. Two years later CEO Bob Iger said there were no more 2-D projects in development and laid off most remaining traditional artists.
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